FCI Syllabus 2025 and Exam Pattern for All Posts, Phase-wise Syllabus

FCI Manager Syllabus for Phase II

The FCI Manager Phase 2 Exam is designed for candidates who successfully clear Phase 1 and features a detailed, topic-wise syllabus specific to this stage. This phase focuses on evaluating the candidate’s professional knowledge and understanding of the key responsibilities associated with the FCI Manager role. It includes critical areas such as management principles, general studies, and discipline-specific subjects, ensuring a comprehensive assessment of the candidate’s skills and subject expertise.

FCI Syllabus For Accounts Manager Post

Commercial Laws –

• Contract Act
• Companies Act
• Sales of Goods Act
• Negotiable Instrument Act
• Consumer Protection Act
• RTI Act

Financial Accounting –

• Analysis of Financial statement
• Budgeting & Budgetary control
• Working Capital Management
• Capital Budgeting & Ratio Analysis

Auditing –

• Auditing Concepts and Methods
• Internal & External Audit of Companies

Basic Computers –

• Operating System
• Browsers
• Email
• Memory(Internal, External, portable)
• Chats
• MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Networks

Taxation –

• Income Tax including the filing of the return, TDS, Advance Tax, etc
• Goods & Services Tax.

FCI Syllabus For Technical Manager

Biotechnology –

• Microbes: Beneficial & Harmful
• Genetic Engineering,
• Biotechnological Principles
• Economic Biotechnology
• Pathogens & Control
• Recent trends

Chemistry –

• Physical Chemistry: Structure of Atoms, Chemical Bonding, Radioactivity
• Inorganic Chemistry, Periodic Table, Basics Metals & Non-metals
• Organic Chemistry, Basics of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, aldehydes and acids
• Biochemistry (Carbohydrates, Proteins & Fats)

Entomology –

• Basic Entomology
• Economic Entomology
• Beneficial and harmful insects
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
• Storage Grain Insect pest
• Vertebrate Pests

Agriculture –

• Statistics of Indian Agriculture (Cereals & Pulses)
• Food & Agriculture Microbiology
• Nutrition (Animal & Plant)
• Postharvest care of Cereals & Pulses
• Food grain Protection
• Agriculture Extension

Food –

• PFA Act, 1964
• Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006/Food Safety and Standards Regulations 2011
• Right to Information Act, 2005

FCI Syllabus For Electrical/ Mechanical Engineering Manager

• Thermodynamics
• Heat Transfer, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning
• Theory of Machines, Machine Design
• Strength of Materials, Engineering Materials
• Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering
• Production Planning and Control
• Material Handling
• Electrical Circuits, Network theorems, EM Theory
• Strength of Materials, Engineering Materials
• Electrostatics, Material Science (Electric Materials), Electrical Measurements,
• Elements of Computation Power Apparatus and Systems (Power System: Power generation; Thermal, Hydro, Nuclear & Solar power production, and Transmissions)
• Electro-mechanics, Control Systems, Electronics and Communications, Estimation and costing, Use of computers

FCI Syllabus For Civil Engineering Manager

Engineering Materials & Construction Technology-

• Selection of site for the construction
• Engineering Materials & Construction Technology
• Planning and orientation of buildings, acoustics
• Ventilation and air conditioning
• Building and highway materials, Stones, Bricks timber, Lime, Cement Mortar, Plain and reinforced Cement Concrete, Bitumen, and Asphalt.

Building Materials-

• Stone, Lime, Glass, Plastics, Steel, FRP, Ceramics, Aluminium, Fly Ash, Basic Admixtures,
• Timber, Bricks and Aggregates Classification, properties and selection criteria, Cement, etc

Construction Practice, Planning, and Management-

• Construction Planning
• Equipment, site investigation
• Tendering Process and Contract Management
• Quality Control, Productivity, Operation Cost
• Land acquisition, Labor safety, and welfare

Surveying-

• Surveying
• Levelling, temporary and permanent adjustments of levels and Theodolite
• Use of theodolite
• Tachometry
• Trigonometrically and Triangulation survey
• Contours and contouring
• Computations of areas and volumes

Soil/Geotechnical Engineering-

• Classification of soil
• Field identification tests
• Water content, specific gravity, voids ratio, porosity, Soil permeability, and its determination in the laboratory and field
• Darcy’s law, Flow nets its Characteristics
• Local and general shear failures
• Plate load test
• Stability of simple slopes

Highways and bridges-

• Classification of road land width
• Flexible pavements
• WBM courses, sub-base, sand bitumen base course, crushed cement concrete base / sub-base course
• Prime and tack coats
• surface dressing
• Asphaltic concrete, seal coats

Structural Analysis-

• Strength of materials
• Bending moments and shear force
• Suspended Cables
• Concepts and use of Computer-Aided Design

Design of steel structures-

• Principles of working stress methods
• Design of tension and compression members
• Design of beams and beam-column connections, built-up sections, Girders, Industrial roofs
• Principles of Ultimate Load Design

Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures –

• Principles of working stress methods
• Design of tension and compression members
• Design of beams and beam-column connections, built-up sections, Girders, Industrial roofs
• Principles of Ultimate Load Design

Estimating, Costing and Valuation-

• Estimate, analysis of rates, earthwork
• Brick, RCC work shuttering, Painting, Flooring, Plastering flexible pavements, Tube well, isolates and combined footings, Steel Truss, Piles, etc.
• Valuation- Value and cost, scrap value, salvage value, assessed value, sinking fund, depreciation and obsolescence, methods of valuation

FCI Manager Exam Pattern 2025 for Phase 1

The first stage in the FCI Manager selection process is Phase 1. This phase includes four sections: English, Numerical Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and General Studies. Candidates are required to answer a total of 100 questions within a 60-minute timeframe.

FCI Manager Exam Pattern 2025 for Phase 2

In Phase 2, separate exams are conducted for each post to select the most suitable candidates for the FCI Manager positions. For detailed information on the questions included in the Phase 2 exam, please refer to the table below.

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